what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

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Now might be a good time for me to point out that I'm learning some 
subtle and useful things about system startup that is helping me think 
about how I might customize system start up if I go that route.

Thanks to everyone who's responding.

alex


On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:01:13PM +0300,
>  Giorgos Keramidas probably wrote:
>> On 2004-09-16 09:11, Ed Budd <ebudd at grokking.org> wrote:
>>> er...doesn't "single user" mode mean no networking? My understanding 
>>> is
>>> that this is really only for maintenance (ie. make installworld, 
>>> etc.),
>>
>> Well, you can always bring up the network interfaces manually ;-)
>>
>
> Actually, that's what /etc/netstart is for.
>
> -- 
> DoubleF
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> trousers that don't match.
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